Posted on 07/02/2015 6:29:24 PM PDT by Kaslin
An image many call provocative, if not offensive, has caused an uproar on social media platforms since last week. The photo, taken by gay artist Ed Freeman of young men holding up a rainbow flag, replicates the iconic picture of Marines and a Navy Corpsman raising the American flag at Iwo Jima in 1945.
The Washington Post decided to highlight the controversy July 1 and let the artist defend himself. Freeman told the Post that the image originally for a cover of the gay magazine, Frontiers, was taken over ten years ago. After the Supreme Court ruling last week, someone shared the image and people started sending him hate mail, even death threats. But Freeman didn't shy away from the controversy, posting the image on his Facebook.
Freeman claimed that he took the picture for a gay audience, not for “straight people from small towns in Idaho.” He denied charges that he meant to be disrespectful. There’s “no way in hell” he meant his image to be scandalous, he told The Post.
The Washington Post’s Don Lamothe seemed dismissive of the image’s detractors as well. “Outrage” over artistic adaptations of the flag is “nothing new,” he wrote. The Iwo Jima image has been altered “countless times,” he reasoned, seemingly siding with Freeman.
Freeman blamed the disappointment over the recent Supreme Court ruling for the backlash against his photo. “I guess I get to be the whipping boy,” he told The Washington Post. “I’m fine with that if that’s what it takes.”
Though Freeman claimed he meant no harm, he is not backing down from the controversy. He told the Post that one of his critics suggested he alter more iconic images from history from a gay rights perspective.
ISIS will do that to them. They won nothing and fought nothing. It is a bunch of victory over little kids and people stuck with jobs.
My dad was in several World War II battles, including Okinawa. Then he fought in Korea and the early period of Vietnam.
PUHAPZ ZIZ voult be ze perfect TIME for me to be makink....an ICONIC “gay” stohm troppuha bannuh of some zort..somethink VERY recognizzzzable like ze Panther Whizz Beer Bottle!!
Heh! Whiz away!
Ive got to be VERY CAREFUL with this.
Panther Whizz is right on the edge..
Militant Homos have NO sense of humor about their malady...
Looks like a man deeply leaning over with a penis on his back. Sorry to be so graphic.
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I don't think they look too kindly on faggotry in Wayward Pines.
YAY!!!
I have to watch now.
I think thats a fair assessment of the image yes.sad to say
gay artist Ed Freeman?? oh REALLY!
...It is not easy to do so. Some of us have buried our closest friends here. We saw these men killed before our very eyes. Any one of us might have died in their places; Indeed, some of us are alive and breathing at this very moment only because the men who lie here beneath us had the courage and the strength to give their lives, for ours.
To speak in memory of such men as these is not easy. Of them too it can be said with utter truth: The world will little note nor long remember what we say here. It can never forget what they did here...
RIP Ryan, Edward C, PFC, KIA, 26th Marines, USMC
I can think of nothing printable to say of the Sodomist or the racist mouthpiece of LaRaza who also profaned the Iwo Jima flag raising on his web site years ago to symbolize the Reconquista effort.
spit
Ed needs to have a new business card made.
Ed Freeman - Asshole
very typical
Thank You.
Indeed..and Dad was 18 at the time.
That would be interesting to find out.
Agreed.
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